Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 21:06:03 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Florian X" <dos DOT fire AT aon DOT at>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 16:45:42 +0100
> 
> I often read about TEX (LaTEX etc.) You can convert it to .pdf, .inf, .htm.
> But there is only an old version for DOS (~1998). So I search other tools
> which are as good.

``Old'' does not necessarily mean ``not good''.

TeX is a very old program, its development virtually stopped several
years ago.  It is so old that its sources are in Pascal(!).  The new
releases only introduce marginal changes, mostly in the font files'
setup, font search tools, etc.

I'm using that ``old version'' all the time, including in my daytime
job, to produce printed versions of documents I write, and everybody
around me keeps asking me what tricks did I need to pull on Word to
get such beautiful documents ;-)

So I really don't understand what is your urge to find a newer
version.  Did you have any problems using the existing ports?

> I want to write an documentation which I want to convert to html too.

First, makeinfo (from the Texinfo package, txi40b.zip) can produce
HTML output; that is how the on-line version of the DJGPP FAQ is
generated.  Second, there's a TeX4HTML package in the v2apps/tex/
directory on SimTel, which can produce HTML from a DVI file (DVI is
the output of TeX).